Ciro Grillo and friends on trial, the girl ‘I start breathing again’

(from the correspondent Elvira Terranova) – It is just after four in the afternoon when the gup of Tempio Pausania Caterina Interlandi reads, in the small courtroom, the decree of indictment of Ciro Grillo and his three friends, all accused of sexual violence group. They will have to present themselves on March 16th, before the judges of the Court to defend themselves against the accusation of having raped, on the night between 16 and 17 July 2019, a 19-year-old Italian-Norwegian girl, in the residence of Beppe Grillo’s son. in Costa Smeralda. Ciro Grillo, Edoardo Capitta, Vittorio Lauria and Francesco Corsiglia, have always claimed that the girl was consenting, but the gup accepted the thesis of the Prosecutor Gregorio Capasso who requested and obtained the indictment of the four. “Today, finally, I’m starting to breathe again,” the young student told Adnkronos, through her lawyer Giulia Bongiorno, who has always been close to her. The Attorney Capasso leaving the Court limits himself to saying: “Our accusatory system has held up, now we will see the trial”. While the girl’s lawyer removes a few pebbles from her shoe: “My client ended up in the dock,” says Senator League Bongiorno, leaving the court. “The judge weighed, studied and chose – he says – If you ask me if I am happy my answer is no, because my client is still suffering, if you ask me instead if I am satisfied my answer is yes because really, how never before, have I witnessed a will to crumble acts that have meaning. There has been a rage against my client who has been put in the dock and I am not referring to the defenders but to what I have read, I am the acts were distorted “. “I have read everything in this trial, then I am really tired of reading small bits of isolated documents that are misinterpreted, today the judge has given an answer to this fragmentation of the evidentiary material, substantial material”, he continues. And remember: “Today is the day after November 25 and I think this day is also important, we all know what November 25 means – she says – When I arrived it was raining very hard and I suddenly saw a rainbow, and it made me to think that even the most difficult things can somehow make the beauty return “. Then Giulia Bongiorno concludes: “I assist many women who, after this trial, do not want to report”. “For my client, what she is undergoing is very heavy. She must keep the TV off, her personal data have been published, all this is very serious”. The lawyers of the defendants, absent those of the young Grillo who were replaced by the other colleagues in the courtroom, prefer not to speak. Gennaro Velle, who defends Francesco Corsiglia, says only: “” We will go to trial and the hearing we will see, the preliminary hearing is a technical step. “At the trial, the Prosecutor Capasso will be alone to represent the accusation, as the himself to the journalists: “In the event of indictment, I will represent the prosecution in the eventual trial for group rape”, he said before the preliminary hearing. In recent months the Prosecutor Laura Bassani, who coordinated the investigation since Capasso, had been transferred to the Sassari court. “I will proceed – he says – also because we have three very young substitutes and two have arrived very recently, so I really think it will not be possible. Maybe in the future when some more experienced magistrate knows, we will see “. In a few dribs and drabs, lawyers and prosecutors leave the small Sardinian court. It is raining outside. All postponed to next March 16 for the first hearing. There Ciro Grillo, Edoardo Capitta, Francesco Corsiglia and Vittorio Lauria, unlike the preliminary hearings during which they never came, will be present.